Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Oct. 19, 2017

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Record highs for major U.S. stock indexes; Dow passes 23,000, by Alex Veiga

FDA OKs second gene therapy for blood cancer, first for adults, by Linda A. Johnson

Bloomberg

JPMorgan executive named to run SEC trading and markets unit, by Benjamin Bain and Annie Massa

Smartphones are killing Americans, but no one’s counting, by Kyle Stock, Lance Lambert and David Ingold

Fortune

This CEO is leading a new wave of female entrepreneurs, by Susie Gharib

Get an up close look at Apple’s Project Titan self-driving car, by Kirsten Korosec

Reuters

United Airlines profit falls, sees margin decline this quarter, by Alana Wise

EBay’s profit forecast disappoints, shares fall, by Aishwarya Venugopal and Jeffrey Dastin

News about business journalism

Testy Biz Copy Editor: Baby steps for the puzzled investor

TheStreet stock price is back above $1

Washington Post names Bhattarai its retail reporter

The Economist starts new TV ad campaign in the U.S.

What can’t be captured by a computer writing earnings stories

The success of Fox Business — can it last?

This date in business journalism

2012: Reuters plans new products in 2013

2007: News Corp. to spend $200 million on Fox Business Network

Business journalism birthdays

Oct. 19: Mary Catherine Wellons of CNBC

Oct. 19: Conor Dougherty of the New York Times

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.